Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Albrecht Altdorfer - Christ taking Leave of his Mother - Google Art Project.jpg

Christ taking Leave of his Mother - In the land of the Giants
Voting period ends on 11 Nov 2014  at 18:27:09 (UTC)


 * Reason:A wonderful Northern Renaissance  painting - with traces of the old way of painting. Look at the small people in right lower corner - at the feet of the bigger figures, those are the donators who by sheer respect didn't wanted to be depicted as big as the other figures.   Albrecht Altdorfer (1480 – 1538) was a German painter, engraver and also architect in Regensburg. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is one of the main representative of the Danube School, who started presenting subjects against landscape backgrounds, and this was the beginning of Western landscape painting. National Gallery Citation: "The subject of Christ taking leave of his mother derives from devotional, not biblical sources. It relates to the moment when Christ leaves for Jerusalem and anticipates his coming death. ... In this, as in other works by Altdorfer, the figures are elongated and their hands and feet enlarged. These distortions emphasise the language of gesture and stance, which Altdorfer uses so effectively."
 * Articles in which this image appears:Albrecht Altdorfer, Christ taking leave of his Mother
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology
 * Creator: Albrecht Altdorfer


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 18:27, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support ALT1 - The colours of the Natioanl Gallery version appear to be better. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:50, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -- Per Crisco, i.e.great image. Good EV/historical value. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:31, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, prefer alt. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:09, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, prefer alt. – religious artwork isn't generally something I go for but I can appreciate the EV for this image. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 09:04, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 18:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)